currently working my way through the ten or twelve mysteries written by Gerry Boyle. Not really very spectacular stuff, but he lives just down the road, and many of the stories take place in remote areas that I'm very familiar with. They're quick reads, and not too badly edited, but he tends to leave loose ends unaddressed.

"Mit der Dummheit kämpfen Götter selbst vergebens."("Against stupidity, the gods themselves contend in vain.")-- Friedrich Schiller (1759–1805)Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.-- Philip K DickOK, now let's look at four dimensions on the blackboard.-- Dr. JoyEnglish isn't much of a language for swearing. When I studied Ancient Greek I was delighted to discover a single word - Rhaphanidosthai - which translates roughly as "Be thou thrust up the fundament with a radish for adultery."

juicegiver wrote:effective August 31, 2013 at 1:00am Eastern Standard time I will stop logging on to this forum from work.

I want to read this stuff at my house.

juicegiver

This useless spam in just about every recent thread. I think I can speak for everyone here when I say we won't miss you

Also, a load of Carl Hiaasen books I got from Amazon. He's good, not as ludicrously farcical as Tom Sharpe was but still very amusing.

That seems to point up a significant difference between Europeans and Americans. A European says: "I can't understand this, what's wrong with me?" An American says: "I can't understand this, what's wrong with him? - Sir Terry Pratchett

The great thing about Beaker is his ability to provoke while still being decorous, or at least within acceptable rules of conduct - Qwertyuiopasd

"I don't mean to sound bitter, cynical or cruel; but I am, so that's how it comes out." ~ Bill Hicks."To argue with a person who has renounced reason is like administering medicine to the dead." ~ Thomas Paine."One should not believe everything one reads on the internet." ~ Abraham Lincoln."If you're making a political point wearing a balaclava, you're a c***. It was true for the IRA and it's true now." ~ daftbeaker.

Finished off A Feast of Crows, A Dance With Dragons will wait for the single set paperback to get printed in October. Meanwhile, finishing off the Millennium trilogy with The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest, which so far is nice in that the opposition is a bit less obviously evil, more nuanced.

"How is it that hardly any major religion has looked at science and concluded, 'This is better than we thought! The Universe is much bigger than our prophets said, grander, more subtle, more elegant. God must be even greater than we dreamed'? Instead they say, 'No, no, no! My god is a little god, and I want him to stay that way.'" - Carl Sagan

"To doubt everything or to believe everything are two equally convenient solutions; both dispense with the necessity of reflection." - Henri Poincaré